vulnerability

SUSE: CVE-2016-5417: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 16, 2017
Added
May 20, 2018
Modified
Feb 4, 2022

Description

Memory leak in the __res_vinit function in the IPv6 name server management code in libresolv in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.24 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging partial initialization of internal resolver data structures.

Solution(s)

suse-upgrade-glibcsuse-upgrade-glibc-32bitsuse-upgrade-glibc-develsuse-upgrade-glibc-devel-32bitsuse-upgrade-glibc-devel-staticsuse-upgrade-glibc-extrasuse-upgrade-glibc-i18ndatasuse-upgrade-glibc-infosuse-upgrade-glibc-langsuse-upgrade-glibc-localesuse-upgrade-glibc-locale-32bitsuse-upgrade-glibc-locale-basesuse-upgrade-glibc-locale-base-32bitsuse-upgrade-glibc-profilesuse-upgrade-glibc-utilssuse-upgrade-nscd
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